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Example sentences for: deter

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These problems include top management's lack of emphasis on ensuring that the internal controls are in place to deter fraud, waste, and abuse.
An analysis said, "The United States yesterday invoked the old Israeli method in the war on terrorism, which tries to deter terrorists and make them pay a price for their actions.
(This did not deter Dole's supply-side critics, led by Jack Kemp, from characterizing his bill as a record-setting tax boost.)
President Clinton issued a classified directive in June 1995, Presidential Decision Directive 39, which said that the United States should "deter, defeat and respond vigorously to all terrorist attacks on our territory and against our citizens."
NOW President Patricia Ireland worries publicly that the dismissal of the Jones case will deter other women from bringing sexual harassment claims.